Volunteer
Girls Rock Camp Houston Needs You!
Girls Rock Camp Houston is actively recruiting volunteers for all positions. We appreciate your efforts dearly and believe that you will be rewarded handsomely by working with, teaching and empowering girls. Your availability during camp determines which positions you can work. We will try to be flexible, but please be upfront about when you can offer your services.
Camp Volunteer Positions
Music Instrument Instructors (music experience required, band experience a plus). Instructors must have basic/and or advanced knowledge in the instrument they are teaching and must be prepared to teach students with widely varying levels of experience. Some students will have never had day of practice in their life, and others will have been playing for several years. Having experience with working with kids in a school or camp setting is a plus. We’re looking for instructors who can teach the following:
- Guitar
- Bass
- Drums
- Keyboards
- Vocals
Band Coaches (music experience required). On the first day of camp, girls will form bands, and each band is assigned a coach. The coach will monitor each band practice and help the band members prepare for their live performance at the end of the camp. The coach will guide the girls in all aspects of working in a band: setting up, tuning, songwriting, learning to play as a group and learning to listen to one another, stage presence. The coach will help students break down instruments after each practice and at the show. She should also be prepared to mediate the occasional dispute.
Counselors (music experience not required). Counselors serve as mentors to the campers and must be available throughout the entire day. Different counselors will be assigned to keep track of a particular group of girls, usually grouped by age, and they will need to keep an eye on the girls’ dynamics. They will provide advice and support to students who come with issues such as low self-esteem, difficulties with other band members, or even issues unrelated to camp. Experience working with children in a school or camp setting is a plus.
Roadie (experience preferred). Roadies move and set up equipment when and where necessary at camp each day; tuning and such is a plus. Roadies are especially needed for the end-of-camp showcase, during which they will move, set up, and tune equipment.
Food Team (music experience not required). Members of the food team will be in charge of obtaining food donations, picking them up, planning meals, organizing serving, and cleaning up for volunteer breakfast and lunch. They will be in charge of camper snacks and making sure that the students who qualify will get free lunches. In general, parents are asked to send lunch with their child. However, we will make sure that all of the girls are fed a lunch.
Show Team (music experience not required). These volunteers will help organize and operate the end-of-camp showcase. Positions will be needed for running sound, stage management, putting up posters at the venue and around town, publicity, creating programs, and clean-up for after the show.
Floaters (music experience not required). These volunteers called upon for the tasks long-forgotten but essential to the success of the camp. Floaters might be sent to Kinko’s or the hardware store, to fill in for a volunteer who can’t make her shift, and to generally be available for whatever comes up. Floaters must have a car and a cell phone. (Scheduling is flexible for these positions; you can sign up for as many or as few shifts as you want.)
Interested in volunteering? Please completely fill out the application (Printable-Volunteer-Application-20101) and return via email: girlsrockhouston@gmail.com.
Or mail the application to:
Girls Rock Camp Houston
2217 Driscoll
Houston, TX 77019
